Sallygator
10/25
Best : One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Best : Foster, Claire Keegan
Butter, Asako Yuzuki
A silly workplace satire that slowly unravels and becomes more absurd. The office group chat gimmick is fun at the start but the novelty wore off about 50 pages from the ending, which felt underdeveloped. It can be read in only one sitting, cute as a palate cleanser between heavier reads.
I have thought about this book every day since I finished it, and I imagine that I will continue to do so for quite some time. I see so many of my own family figures and our repeated failures in the Buendia family. I particularly enjoyed the portrayal of the shifts in family dynamics as the matriarch and patriarch of the family age. Broke my heart and healed it again, so worth the effort of sticking with it until the end.
Reading this felt like a dream. So much was left unsaid, piecing together the puzzle helped me process some of my own thoughts about disappearing in to myself and becoming a shadow.
A masterpiece in less than 100 pages. Small but mighty, this packs a punch. Beautiful.
I wish the world could be like this.
A gift from a friend, because it was the weirdest book they could find.
I know it's beautifully written, I know that it's technically brilliant, I know that it's worth it for those few, short scenes that are perfect glimpses of raw humanity. I know, I know, I know, but I almost DNF'd this so many times because stream of conciousness is insufferable.
Loved this weird little collection of short stories. Spooky, sexy, full of hope and dread, just the way I like it.
This made me brave enough to tackle One Hundred Years of Solitude and for that I will be forever grateful. It is special in it's own right too.
A fun and accessible trip down memory lane, any translation of The Odyssey will always have a special place in my heart.